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Post by nkforster on May 21, 2017 8:41:26 GMT
Auction ends this evening folks. So far Beth will receive £2150 towards her treatment. That's great news for Beth and a bargain for whoever is leading the bidding. This'll be your last chance to get a "relic" Session King, so bid now or forever hold your peace!
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Post by nkforster on May 15, 2017 4:59:55 GMT
Lovely thing you're doing, Nigel. I fancy a wee bid myself, although I reckon the auction will do very well going by how it's started Ta. Bid what you can, you might get it, and if you don't you'll help push the price up. It's 1/3 the regular price today without the 18-month wait. Bargain! Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com/blog/raising-money-beths-cancer-treatment/
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Post by nkforster on May 14, 2017 19:41:31 GMT
Nigel, I have just followed the link to the ebay listing. Your guitar is listed in Art- photographs section, so it will not show up in Musical Instruments- Acoustic Guitars section. Anybody doing a random guitar search will not see your guitar. You will need to revise your listing and change the sale category, this will give you a much wider audience for the auction. Good luck, Steve. I wondered why it asked if I was a "self representing artist"! I've added a second catagory. Can't do anything about the wrong one. The bidding has got off to a good start. If it hadn't reached over a grand, I'd have bought it myself! Thanks. n
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Post by nkforster on May 14, 2017 17:42:40 GMT
Someone whom I knew rather well in my 20’s has breast cancer. She has stage 4 breast cancer. Despite this, she is getting and responding well to treatment. The treatment she is getting is not available on the UK health service so she has to pay. So my wife and I have decided to auction off a guitar to raise some funds. Beth is a school teacher, a wife, and a mother. She’s in her early 40’s. You can read more about Beth HERE. Often we get so wrapped up in our lives we forget. We forget that about the reality – that one minute we can be fit and well, the next we can be facing serious illness. My wife and I were discussing this, and thought the best thing we could do to help is to raise some money for Beth’s treatment. So I’d like to auction a guitar. You can read more about it all here: www.nkforsterguitars.com/blog/raising-money-beths-cancer-treatment/Best, Nigel
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Post by nkforster on Apr 21, 2017 6:00:27 GMT
There is nothing wrong with a BAM (unless you want to put it in the hold of a plane) I have a friend who keeps a Somogyi in one. I only know of Stafford Guitars who stock the classical Visesnut cases - give them a ring and they may be able to help. Cheers Jonny Jonny, it's a £450 case without a functional string box or proper neck support. If people choose to keep guitars in them, fine, but they shouldn't expect one to offer the same protection as a Hiscox LA. They look nice and they're light. They are designed to look nice and to offer enough protection for light use. I know enough about the manufacturing process to recognise that a BAM is designed to be made very quickly. Very quickly. It's a good business - I was in the airport line with an orchestra on the way to Japan, and most the violin players had BAM's. They're in fashion just now. I'll order them for people if they want them, but they are not going to become my default case of choice, for the reasons given. That's a shame as with a few small improvements, they would be. Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com
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Post by nkforster on Apr 20, 2017 16:04:36 GMT
I wasn't going to comment as threads such as this frequently crop up and can end in tears, but... In comparison with a violin or cello, it is peanuts, not enough for a half-decent bow - perhaps a reflection of the folk/popular roots of the instrument. Re. is it better than a Sobell? High-end guitars are not generally better than each other, just different. As for the market value, we'll probably never know because it may sell for much less, which won't be advertised on the website. The asking price doesn't mean much. I know of a BR Traugott not selling for over a year and then at a very low price. It is a tough market for expensive guitars, especially those with Brazilian Rosewood which restricts buyers from other countries; also, a potential buyer will be reluctant as they know they will have the same problem when they want to move it on. I've heard of expensive vintage guitars being bought by collectors and never played, but loads of us on this forum know owners (or are owners) of these guitars who buy them because they love playing them. Jonny You're right Johnny. But there are a lot of peole out there, including people in business who still don't fully grasp supply and demand. And I've found that if by a certain age they don't understand it, explaining it cleary doesn't seem to help. It's just how it is.
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Post by nkforster on Apr 12, 2017 5:27:31 GMT
Nice to hear bands play without piezo pickups eh? I wish more folk would take this approach. It means playing at lower volumes and actually listening to each other, so it'll never catch on!
Nigel
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Post by nkforster on Apr 11, 2017 15:13:22 GMT
Just for interest, what would you recommend as a flight case? A flight case. One of them big heavy boxes with metal on the edges and corners. Not even a Calton is a flight case. The Bam is, I'm afraid a classic case of "fur coat and no knickers." There is a lot of it about these days...Fine if the guitar goes from house to car to house and back every now and again. But that's about it. I'm flying to Japan with it in the morning so packed the guitar well inside, then but it back in the box it arrived in and packed inside the box thoroughly. It's too big to go in the overhead and it wouldn't last 5 minutes in the hold. Fingers crossed... Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com
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Post by nkforster on Apr 11, 2017 4:48:50 GMT
I had three different cases in the workshop this week, so I made a short video comparing them: Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com
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Post by nkforster on Mar 31, 2017 6:26:11 GMT
Ian Stephenson has made a very video featuring a mahogany /spruce Model C-SK "advanced". That's the high gloss, high spec version of my basic "Session King" guitars. Here she is in all her shiny glory - Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com
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Post by nkforster on Mar 29, 2017 20:24:12 GMT
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Post by nkforster on Mar 28, 2017 17:05:51 GMT
Jimmy makes great guitars. And he's a smashing feller. His stuff isn't flashy or fashionable these days, but he makes a bloody good guitar.
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Post by nkforster on Mar 27, 2017 19:22:49 GMT
Hi, Although I've done odd bits & bobs on my own instruments over the years & own a book on the subject, I'd like to gain a better knowledge of repairing & setting up guitars and I was wondering if there's any widely recognised courses or qualifications? Not that I'm aware of. But there is so much free info out there on YouTube, you can teach yourself. Buy a basic set up kit, get a crap guitar to set up and away you go! n
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Post by nkforster on Mar 26, 2017 18:23:01 GMT
I bloody love that Nigel. Always had a spect spot for dreadnought guitars, and this looks decidedly delicious! Interesting you have gone for schertler tuners. I shall be interested to hear what you make of those. And of course and can't wait to hear what this sounds like Robbie Me too. I've made very few Model D's. Maybe only three or four. And they've all been great. Every time I make one I expect to get loads of orders when folk play them, but a lot of folk don't associate me with dreadnoughts, or dreadnoughts with fingerstyle. Or something like that. But the "Modeified D" thing has been popular for a few years now so I thought it worth a try. It's the best fingerstyle guitar I've made for ages. I really like it. It truly is a "responsive" guitar. And light! Which is a new thing for me these days. I bought a couple of sets os Schertlers last year and now seemed a good time to try them out - on a spec guitar rather than a commissioned one. So far so good, they're smooth, they look nice, no issues. n
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Post by nkforster on Mar 26, 2017 17:20:06 GMT
Planning to go to Osaka, Japan in a couple of weeks. Hurrah! I never need much of a reason to go to Japan, but a guitar show is one of the best ones I can think of. Not done a guitar show for years. Ullapool, 2008 was the last one. I was just a young lad then of 38. I knew nowt. It was the end of last year when I decided to go. Then I realised I had nothing to take, so I put this together - one of my Model D guitars. It was an excuse to try out a new way of laminating sides. The last few years I've been building very heavy bodies in order to make the soundboard work harder. But I wanted to see if I could make the top work just as hard without adding the mass. So I came up with a different way of laminating. And it works. Really well. It's a very different voice from my regular guitars. Big, warm and full yet still with clarity. The soundboard is my standard soundboard or SS design, based on the old Sobell design. So this is a Model D-SS. It had been so long since I've made a Model D (why don't folk order them from me?) and I'd thrown away the mould in the move to Germany. So I came up with a novel way to get the shape I wanted based on my Model S. I covered the process on a blog I write from time to time for luthiers: www.theluthierblog.com/articles/design-new-shape/The rosette harks back to a design I used a lot about 8 years ago. Blue, black and white lines with "crowsfoot." The binding is a black engineered wood ebony substitute. The top is European spruce and the back and sides are laminated with bubinga on the outside, engineered ebony on the inside. It's not just been ages since I've made a Model D, it's been a long time since I've sat on the sofa playing one of my guitars for so long. It's a lovely fingerstyle guitar. If the guitar and I make it back from Japan safe and sound I'll send it to Ian Stephenson and Tom Fletcher to make a video. I plan to take some posh pictures this week, but for now, enjoy the iPod snaps. Here is a little blog post about the guitar from last year too: www.nkforsterguitars.com/blog/forster-modified-d-guitar/Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com
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